News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-05

'Yes," he said, " stagin' was purt,
! hard work, but he didn't mind it any
more. Got so used to it he wa ant fit fol
nothin' else"
Would he like to go back East to live
! Well, not that anybody knowed of, h
wouldn't Couldn't live out O sight O
them mountains no way you could fix it
He'd like to be buried right on top O
the highest one of 'em. There wan
/ nothin' so much comp'ny to a lonesome
were to him what the sea is to sailor
and to all who have been "born and
raised" on its coast.
We reached the Twin Lakes before
noon. They are the largest and most
beautiful of all Colorado's lakes, and are
! likely to become a very fashionable sum
mer resort for the future. There are
already great many little cottages on
! their wild shores, and a more charming
place could not be found in August and
September. After that the nights are
cold, and the general aspect too wintry
to please most visitors.
One passenger came aboard the stage
at the Lakes. He remarked ominouslv
that We would have ga tough time of
it - getting over the range that lay
between us and Independence. He
ventured the prediction that we'd have
to come back to the Lakes for the night,
if we didn't go rolling off the pass.
We were In the mountains now. The
valleys disappeared with the lakes. The
roads grew rougher rs we drove through
narrow gulches, under gloomy pines,
and around mighty powders. The
driver did not tempt any more fancy
driving. He did not talk much, intimat-
ing that the time had come for attend
ing strictly to business. We had chang
ed horses at the Lakes, and the new
horses had not the spirit of those we had
left behind us. The driver dubbed
them ''lazy old rips, and made dire
threats as to what he would do if they
didn't 'git out O that in q hurry.
Surprised by these threats, they mo-
seyed on little faster than before, and
We pulled up before the dinner station
only an hour behind time.
/ had been briefly warned by the
lI1ver that the woman who kept the
;tage station was the "aIl-tiredest talk |
i" and had reason to believe that the I
,olite name was deserved before We
rove away. She was standing in the
DOR of the long, low, one-story log
louse when We drove up.
'sAn hour behind time Jack" she !
to the driver, "an' you amt got !
laf a load, neither. Roads so bad as
that2 But wait till you try h'istin'
versclf up over the range-youu see
roads then! I've KEEP dinner hot, an
it'll be ready in two shakes of a sleeps
tail. Come right in, ladies. Mizzable
weather for ladies to be out. Half
froze, amt you?'
LII ten minutes a thoroughly good and
bountiful dinner was set before us. [
was surprised to find such variety Of
excellent dishes on the neat table.
''IIa yes" said the woman, in reply
to some remark [ made, "we do have
enough to eat, an that's fact; but
that's bout all We DO have that's wuth
livin' for here in this wilderness, that
amt fit for white folks to live in nohow.
[ amt goin' to live here much longer.
[ come from Indianny, where folks
has things little decent. Where you
from? IOway? That's good State, [
guess. Ny mans sister lives there.
AIebbe You know her; her names Jones'
Don't know her? Well, it's a right
common name. She's got three chill
dren-two boys an a girl. ] amt never
seen her, but I've got her photygraft.
I'll show it to you after dinner. My
mans minin' here, but L amt no faith
in minin.' You might jess rs well buy
a ticket in the Loosianny lottery, ev'ly
mite an grain as well. [ tell him so, too,
but he will hang Oh. One things dead
sure: 1 amt goin' to stay here much
longer. Night jess as well git into Yer
coffin an be buried. Back there i'll
Indianny.we had quiltin's an singin'
schools an litera1ys an circuses an
things wuth livin' fer. Here we amt
even got q school for our young 'Tins.
They're CROWN up like wild critters.
Money amt all they is on this earth. l
tell my man so, too. He says We'll go
back East after he strikes it. Strikes
it, Shucks If We don't go till then,
we'll be buried here. Have some more
meat-do. What You amt through
so soon Have some pie and another
cup Of coffee. There's apple sass III
that kivered dish. I've got doughnuts
warmin' in the oven. Ny man couldn't
live without hot doughnuts ev'ry meal.
Some folks say they amt healthy, but
he's healthy as any pig"
''She'd go on like that all day and all
night, if you stayed SO long, said the
driver, as We drove away. ga single
man gifts purity lonesome here some
times: but I'll be derned if L wouldn't
think it a happy sort o lonesomness if
] was tied to such tallzin' machine as
that woman. She pears to be wound
up so she won't never run down. Shes
a real good-hearted sort of woman, too,
and they say her man don't mind her
clatter. I'd like to know when in crea-
ton she sleeps"
We had left our coach behind us, and
taken a sled in its stead. We were
going up the range now, and had a long,
steady pull before us. The snow was